{"id":5217,"date":"2025-05-18T03:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2025-05-18T03:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:12:47","slug":"waymo-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2025\/05\/waymo-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo&#8217; questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I endure commuting, I keep seeing them (they&#8217;re most of the time super great; sometimes they do odd shit) and I have so many questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>They scaled up trips <em>10X<\/em> in less than two years I think. How tf?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Do they really have one &#8220;file&#8221; and upload it to all cars every night?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Or is it some kind of live update happening? Seems dangerous but maybe safe these days.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>How many iterations before the car knows what to do in a certain situation? 10? 1,000?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>How is AI impacting their progress? Has it made it much better, easier, scarier?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Has the hardware evolved? What have been the biggest improvements here?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Are people trying to hack them? I imagine some super embed Linux shell somewhere but maybe it&#8217;s running off of Firefox (just kidding).<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Did the team use things from computer games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg\">juicing<\/a>? The cars are so smooth transitioning from lane to lane, it feels juicy. They have tweening\/easing algorithms, 100%.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>How much other cars impact Waymo cars? I see drivers being mean to them all the time.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Do they record audio outside of the car? Tons of information with that (fire trucks). Can the car process that info in real time?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>How are car insurance companies looking at all this? Virtually no accident with a Waymo, how will they charge anything in the future?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>What is competition doing? I imagine that there\u2019s an absurd amount of nepotism\/politics involving local and federal agencies. Meaning, it must be really hard to compete by now.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>How\u2019s cleaning those cars going? Is there a pattern with people having sex in them?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/waymo.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/waymo-and-toyota-outline-strategic-partnership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">partnership with Toyota recently<\/a>. Driverless life is well on its way here in California. Can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I endure commuting, I keep seeing them (they&#8217;re most of the time super great; sometimes they do odd shit) and I have so many questions: They scaled up trips 10X in less than two years I think. How tf? Do they really have one &#8220;file&#8221; and upload it to all cars every night? Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}